AMD Releases 3D Programming Documentation

Posted by kdawson on Saturday February 23, 2008 @12:20PM from the fosdem-fossdoc dept.

Michael Larabel writes "With the Free Open Source Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) starting today, where John Bridgman of AMD will be addressing the X.Org developers, AMD has this morning released their 3D programming documentation. This information covers not only the recent R500 series, but goes back in detail to the R300/400 series. This is another one of AMD's open source documentation offerings, which they had started doing at the X Developer Summit 2007 with releasing 900 pages of basic documentation. Phoronix has a detailed analysis of what is being offered with today's information as well as information on sample code being released soon. This information will allow open source 3D/OpenGL work to get underway with ATI's newer graphics cards."

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Re:So is this all for any chip? by TravisWatkins · 2008-02-23 14:18 · Score: 3, Informative

The previous releases covered initializing the card, mode setting, 2D output, etc. That's a lot of stuff to cover. These docs are basically just on how to setup the 3D engine and feed it shaders.

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